Editors' Review

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by: Download.com Staff
on February 27, 2009

This application cleverly optimizes your system to boost cache and memory utilization, but only advanced users will fully comprehend this product. O&O CleverCache Professional Edition's well-designed interface offers a full component of graphs and charts to please graphics fans. Most controls are novice-friendly click-on/click-off devices, but a few sliders simplify changing settings.

Start it and forget it is the theme as O&O CleverCache Professional Edition opens and quickly configures its optimal settings for your cache and memory utilization. As this is an art and not a science, the application makes it easy for advanced users to alter cache size, free memory recovery, and other settings.

How well it works depends on your system. The big advantage of this program over others is the simple method to create profiles. When you find the precise group of settings for your system, you can easily save them to a profile. Change your needs and quickly save another profile. It takes only a second to switch profiles when you switch your system's role. We believe this application has the right mix of novice-friendly controls, and advanced user settings to make it flexible enough for the majority of users.

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Publisher's Description

O&O CleverCache 6 Professional is a unique tool that optimizes the File Cache Management for Windows Vista, NT, 2000 and Windows XP. This results in an enormous increase in performance boosting a system's performance at times to up to twice its original speed. All this is achieved without the need for additional hardware or any reduction in your system's stability. You simply install O&O CleverCache 6 and youe ready to go no need to reboot. It automatically recognizes your configuration, and within five minutes you can unlock the hidden resources on your Windows system.

It seems to do something for the startup (a definite speed increase), manages memory without negative impact and even seem to deal with some observed memory usage growth observed prior (without being released ever).

Cons

Not sure it does anything at all in terms of file caching. Access to files still causes freeze of applications on my laptop.

Summary

The interface is simple and easy to use. Leave as automatic optimization (probably best) for immediate results. If you hope for a dramatic change in file access though and hope this product would resolve issues you may have, think again. Overall, it is a good product but not perfect.

Uninstalled it after 10 days of the demo because it didn't seem to do anything. Saw no difference in performance but I have a high end machine to begin with. This may work better on a older/lesser performance machine.

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